The Salesmen/Office
Mamet is by no means the first to create a story in which salesmen seem to symbolize the disintegration of the American Dream, but he does manage to pull it off without beating the audience over th...
The Leader Board
Ah, the leader board—all the guys need to get on it, and all the guys want to be on top. Throughout the play, the leader board comes to symbolize dominance and even manhood (at least manhood as t...
Dialogue
While one might not immediately think of Mamet's dialogue as being rife with symbolism, the style of the dialogue is in and of itself symbolic of the world of the play. It is fractured, and one cha...